The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-08
VERY Personal.

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more "stone," to the carload.
Ir's a poor pugilist nowadays who
don't break his right arm, and then
brag how hard he hits But Dempsey
isn't as big man as Old Sullivan yet.
A DISPATCH dated Medicine Hat,
N. W. t." says band of Blood In
dams is on the rampage. I'm. W. T.
-whoever he is-3oesn't look sharp
there'll be blood Oh HE hat band toon.
Nh LooKR's prediction that the Ma
tionsl Opel Company's trip across the
continent would be- Historical" will
be realized with slight alteration, the
Indicator thinks. /; wiil!be hysterical.
A BIG business is being done in this
country in reeutting old diamonds.
TINS must be on the diamond cut
diamond" principle, as Americana are
The brightest, keenest and hardest
among natione.
A CHICAGO doctor threatened HE
scornful sweetheart that he would
wait till she died aud then steal her
out OF be; coffin. The Chicago lover
is bounu to get the dead wood on bis
girl if he can.
W. II. GLIDER, who started in a
white tiannel suit on lamble TO the
north pole in August last, has arrived
in New York with his suit na1lY dam
aged and his courage wrecked. The
pole is still there.
A PROMINENT poet OF st. Louis has a
rug 1882 years old, enveloped Ia which
he writes some of his best verses,
among them the following:
''As warm and as snug
AS abug in rug"
DIvE', cautiously enough, are ga l9ors
fequented by lszEIo1i. Three hun.
dred of them have been denounced in
Chicago by a rich retormer, just off a
batter, who searched them in vain for
a drop of water TO cool his parched
tongue.
Mr.. JAMEs B-N Pr having
failed to elevate the stage, now ap-
pears as the indo ger of complexion
Ply WIDER man ufactured by an erstwhile
Chicago "sassiety" woman. Perhaps
Mrs. 2. intends 20 elevate the cosmetic
profession.
THE New York World recently al.
luded to the exquisite singing of Mics
Henrietta Matketein. Unfortunately
for the World M ss Msr9etein Ia a
pianiste and not a vccs.ist. A little
less circulation and ligtle more accu-
racy, Mt. Pulitzer
The Rev. ARTHUR MoRRIsoN, Just
convicted of stealing horse aud buggy
at Baltimore, is said to have been ]
great sdmirer Of that good old hymn,
Il love TO steal while away" Mr..
Morrison will while away the next
seven years in the penite itary.
EMMA ABBOTT saysshe doesn' really
kiss the tenors wno play lovers to her
herolnes; she ony pretends to, 30
the Abbott kiss" 10 a myth after all.
Thus one by one the beloved tradi.
tions Of our childhood Fare m adesthe
victims OF heartless iconoclasts.
Bill NYE says he expects to make a
great deal OF money out Of his last
book because tits larger and thicbe"
than any he ever published before.
What the pubic wa 1ts," be adds, "is
a big book -bne that van be ussd to
prop up the lounge with when its leg
Is bioken."
ATRAHP In Lo Ter Saucon township
ponie'y asked farmers family to
stand up and Isl him brain them with
an AK. His courtesy is rewarded viii
arrest; but if he hal heedleesIy and
inConsiderately Drained them in sit.
ting position he woulu no doubt have
gone Scot free.
COLONEL hCCAuLL has been active
10 his enceaVor, TO .es mar agsr5 10
unite in appealing for mooifc ,tions OF
the interstate comms,ce bill. Don
corning this Manager McVIcker writes
with delica esah casm: II Zee that thu
mana GERS OF Chicago are WORKING for a
repeal of the lew until McUsGll gets
back to Nsw York"
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN saws that
when he stopped eating meat thirteen
yeers ago, aud began living on iiuit
and grain, he welgoed 2l0 pouods and
was uncomfoItably oat. His change
of diet caustd him 10 drop to $50
pounds within year and he mas held
tnat weight ever since. He has not
been sick an hour since that tue.
For some time past Theodore
Thomas has been taxing daily walks
of at least ten miles. NJ one could
exactly understand the reason fJr this
sudden ferv1r OF pedestrianiem But
now the secret is out. Theo. T. evi-
IDENTIFY mistrusted the results OF the
San Francisco season, and WAS getting
into training 80 that he could wax
nome with comfort and dispatch.
HBRE is William o'Brien
Comes over and stands up
To tel how Lord Ian sdOwDe
Tells his, poor ten ants hands upp
In true robber fashion
By keeping his lands up.
The thrifty farmers of Long ,land
SET traps Of this kind for the amateur
baseball fsnds who roam around the
meadow land DIS in search Of something
to trgmpls down: Holes are dug in
the ground from foot to two aud
half feet desp and varying from two
TO four feet in diameter, which arc |
filed With fertilizing compound aud |
covered with light coating OF fresh |
SdIbu. lu nv GbhlST VI Vie IaFp66L |
one of ihese traps is planted tempt
ing bunch of rhubarb. 1t is not gen.
orally understood why bunch Of fhu.
bsrb should be particularly attractive
to Baseball tiend. But the bait
seems to calc1 good deal Of game.
EX-SENATOR TABOR, OF Colo,a 10, the
milnonairs mine owner, has just built
a new opera mouse in Leadvilie meant
to be finer than the oGe in d .nyer. A
few days ago Tabor employed an artist
TO freaco the walls. While he was at
work on portrait Of Shakespeare,
Tab n entered the building and ssk ed
who it Was / artist was painting.
"5hakespears," was the reply.
"Who is ne p
,s"Ihe greatest poet, drama list. ETC.,
that ever lived "
Ever done anything for Lead
eille?"
mo; I think not" replied the artist